Text: The Struggle of the Great Powers_Chapter 238: The Dispute of the Erbuna River
When Li Ancheng led hundreds of thousands of troops to land in the country of Buni overnight from the sea, the country of Buni also got the news. Suddenly, the entire Buni country was boiling, and almost all of the 500,000 elite troops in the country were blocking the eight million army of the Beichen Army at Hao'er Pass. But no one thought that Beichen Kingdom actually landed an army of 800,000 from the sea.
That's 800,000 Ah, and when the monarch of the Buni Kingdom heard the news, he almost peed his pants. There are already 8 million Beichen troops outside Hao'er Pass, and now 800,000 Beichen troops have emerged from the sea, what should I do?
With 8.8 million enemy troops, a large army is pressing the border, and a small country with only a few hundred thousand troops, as for playing like this! Up to now, it has only been a few days, and there are only about a dozen of the more than 30 cities in the north of the Buni country. And the capital is facing nearly 10 million Beichen army troops from the south and east, and there are only 500,000 troops in the capital, and some of them have just put down their hoes and entered the barracks not long ago.
Anyway, now the monarch of the Buni Kingdom feels like his head is about to explode. The pressure is too great, and the gap in strength between the two sides is also fierce, and there is no solution at all.
"Generals, tell me how we should resist the Beichen Army!" The monarch of the Buni Kingdom said weakly, in fact, he also asked too much, and the generals below estimated that they had no way.
"Great King, now the main army of eight million in Beichen Kingdom is blocked outside Haoer City. And the 800,000 Beichen troops who came from the sea still have to conquer Ulan City, so that they will come to the capital. In this way, we still have time to set up the city's defenses. After all, there are still 500,000 troops in the city, and I believe that they can resist the 800,000 enemy army for a while. Just wait until Xia Guo ......"
"Xia Guo? Hmph, the Xia Kingdom and the Beichen Kingdom have the same roots, how can they help us! Besides, haven't we seen the lessons of the Uzzi country? In a fit of rage, the king of Beichen Kingdom turned more than 50 cities of Uzi into death places, does the general also want us to make the Buni Kingdom like the Uzi Kingdom?"
"Humph! So what do you think can be done to resolve this crisis?" General Buni looked angrily at the civil official who had just spoken.
"You are generals, foreign invasion is naturally something you should consider, and we don't understand military affairs!"
"Huh!" General Buni was speechless for a moment.
"Well, now that the enemy is present, you still have the heart to quarrel! O my God! Alas~ Let's wait for news from Xia Guo. In addition, let the 500,000 troops of Haoer Pass withdraw to the capital, so that our defensive forces will be more sufficient! ”
"Yes, King!"
Just as a group of guys in the hall were about to leave, the door of the main hall was suddenly pushed open, and a guard broke in. The guard saluted in panic and said, "Oh no, the Beichen army has broken through the Haoyi Pass, and the 500,000 army has almost been wiped out!" ”
"What!" "What!" "What, how could this be!" "God! What the hell is going on! ”……
A burst of exclamations rang out, and the guard's words completely set the entire hall on fire. Suddenly, the main hall returned to its previous appearance, and it was as messy as a vegetable market.
The monarch of the Buni Kingdom sat stupidly on his own bench, and the words that the guards had just said kept ringing in his ears. The Haoer Pass was breached, and the 500,000 elite army was wiped out! How is this possible, it was an army of 500,000, and it was broken by the Beichen Army in just one day! How strong should the combat effectiveness of the Beichen Army be, since the Beichen Army was able to break through the Haoer Pass in less than two days, then the capital city that is even worse than the Haoer Pass.
500,000 elites were stationed at the checkpoint, but they didn't stop the Beichen Army for two days. The monarch of the Buni Kingdom really didn't dare to imagine the scene when the Beichen Army attacked the capital, and the 500,000 militia in the city were estimated to be only slaughtered.
The monarch of the kingdom of Buni sat on his chair, his expression so depressed that he did not even hear the shouts of the people in the palace. Until the officials in the main hall left one by one, only the king was left alone in the deserted hall.
Rewind the clock to the previous day......
The 500,000-strong servant army continued to attack the city for more than four hours in the morning, and it was not until the second group of siege troops had eaten lunch that they withdrew from the front. When 500,000 returned to the camp, there were only more than 400,000, and tens of thousands of men and horses had been lost in just a few hours.
However, they did not play any role, at least the defenders in the Haoer Pass also suffered heavy casualties, and many troops were tired. The most important thing is that most of the catapults placed on the city wall have also been destroyed by the soldiers of the servant army, and only about a hundred of them are chatting about to continue to bombard the catapults of the Beichen army.
Taking advantage of the time when the second batch of siege troops were assembled, more than 1,000 catapults of the Beichen Army became popular again, and the sky was full of flying boulders, which made people feel creepy. In addition to this, countless bed crossbows also joined the attack, but the damage of the crossbow arrows to the city wall was too small.
In the afternoon, it was a tragic siege battle, and the Beichen army still did not take the Haoer Pass. On the contrary, he left a full 100,000 servant soldiers in front of Guan Pass, but this number was nothing in front of the huge base of the Beichen Army.
The defenders of the city also suffered tens of thousands of casualties, and the number plummeted by 10 percent. That's not a good thing for them. Although one defender dies, the Beichen army will die two or even three, but it can't bear the Beichen army. No matter how it is exchanged, the 500,000 defenders will at most exchange for the Beichen army of more than 1 million people. The Beichen army lost one million, and there were still seven million people, so the defenders suffered a loss.
The battle during the day did not achieve much results, and Yue Fei was not angry, which was a very normal phenomenon. A city is defended by an army of 500,000 troops, and it is definitely not something that can be easily attacked. If you want to take the Haoer Pass, you still have to seize the opportunity of some defenders to relax, and only in this way can you take the pass as quickly as possible.
Otherwise, it would be a joke if it became the first battle of Taiyuan. During the Song Dynasty, the powerful Mongolian iron cavalry, which almost did not sweep Europe, was blocked by tens of thousands of Song Dynasty soldiers and some militia in Taiyuan, Shanxi Province, for more than half a year.
For more than half a year, Yue Fei really didn't dare to imagine what it would be like if he was blocked here for half a year. I'm afraid that at that time, if the king doesn't use the Zhenguo warehouse, the millions of troops will all starve to death.
So, that night, at more than three o'clock in the middle of the night, that is, during the landing of Li Ancheng's sailors.
Yue Fei dispatched more than 10,000 volunteer soldiers to take advantage of the cover of the night to climb the city wall with hooks and ropes. And the soldiers of the Volunteer Army did not disappoint Yue Fei, and after most of the casualties, they finally opened the gate of Haoyi Pass. As a result, the main force of the Beichen Army entered the Haoer Pass and obtained the Haoer Pass.
After climbing the city wall, 10,000 volunteers secretly killed many enemy soldiers and cleared a road to the city gate. However, when everyone came to the city gate, they found that the city gate had been blocked by the stones of the defenders of the Buni Kingdom. There was no way, and the 10,000 volunteer soldiers had to quickly move away the stones.
It was at that time that it was discovered by the defending troops. After being discovered, tens of thousands of defenders went directly to the volunteer soldiers. Although, the training time of the volunteer soldiers is very short, only a month. However, if a unit has conviction, its combat effectiveness will increase exponentially.
The soldiers of the Volunteer Army did not defeat the tens of thousands of defenders in front of them, but they firmly blocked the attack of the defenders and provided enough time for their comrades to carry the stones. It was the time that thousands of soldiers stopped with their lives that became the defeat of the defenders of Haoer Pass.
After the war, only 472 of the 10,000 volunteers who climbed over the wall and entered the pass survived. Even among these four hundred and seventy-two people, most of them were either seriously injured or exhausted.
After capturing Haoer Pass, the Beichen army directly faced the capital of the Buni Kingdom. No, it should be said that the country of Buni has been stripped of its coat and is only waiting for the Beichen army to go up and play.
Although in order to attack Haoer Pass, the Beichen Army lost more than 100,000 soldiers, but most of them were servant soldiers. And the servants are just one-time consumables for the war for Beichen Kingdom, and they can be recruited again when they run out, so they don't worry about it at all. There are more slaves in the country, and there are more people who want to join the servant army.
Only the casualties of the 10,000 volunteers made Yue Fei a little unhappy. These are the future of Beichen Kingdom, and many of the volunteer soldiers are between the ages of eighteen and twenty-two. And from this battle, Yue Fei also saw the combat effectiveness of the soldiers of the Volunteer Army.
Although these guys are not skilled in fighting, they are all desperate guys. The bodies of many of the volunteers were slashed with more than a dozen knives, and the more than 30,000 soldiers of the Buni Kingdom who fell near the city gate are enough to prove the merits of these fallen soldiers.
When Yue Fei took the Haoyi Pass, the 800,000 naval soldiers led by Li Ancheng also came to the outside of Wulan City. There are hundreds of thousands of elite troops, lined up with eighty phalanxes, and it can be said that outside the city of Ulan, there are densely packed with 10,000 phalanxes of the Beichen army.
Under the siege of such a large army, no one in Ulan City escaped, which made Li Ancheng a little surprised. After all, the gap between the two sides is too great, five thousand to eight hundred thousand. What concept, even if there is a city, it is simply whimsical for 5,000 people to block 800,000 enemy troops. Perhaps, if Hao Zhao and Huo Jun are both in Ulan City, there is still a glimmer of possibility.
In fact, it's not that the people in Ulan City don't flee, but they don't have time to escape. Many people had already packed up their belongings and were ready to flee to the capital. You must know that the Beichen Army is notoriously murderous, at least in the area where the Buni Kingdom is now occupied, there are almost no old people and children.
Many of the soldiers in the city also took off their armor and threw away their weapons. As for fighting on the city wall, they had already run aside. This is not April Fool's Day, just a few thousand of us, working against 800,000 people, it must be God and his old man who is confused. That's 800,000 Beichen Kingdom's elite army, not 800,000 scarecrows!
It's just that when the city was in a panic, no one thought that the Beichen Army had actually blocked the city gate and surrounded the city to death. At this moment, the soldiers and people in the city were all dumbfounded, how could this Nima Beichen army run so fast. Just got the news of the landing of the Beichen Army for two hours, and this has already been called.
The Beichen army blocked the city gate, and the guys in the city naturally hurriedly closed the city gate, for fear that the Beichen army would take advantage of the situation to enter the city. It's just that the few defenders of hundreds of people on the Ulan city wall, as well as the lonely flags, make Ulan City seem more mysterious.
Li Ancheng looked at the city in front of him, and without saying a word, he directly asked 100,000 soldiers to attack the city. And demanded that the army must have lunch in the city.
So, 100,000 horses, carrying some improvised ladders that had been brought down from the boats, rushed towards the Ulan city wall.
And the defenders on the city wall were also dumbfounded, looking at the dense Beichen Army soldiers outside the city, and the earth-shattering shouts of killing sounded in their ears. Looking back again, on the city wall of Nuoda, there are only hundreds of people and horses who are barren. This is still a bird begging, and there are only a few hundred people left with 5,000 people running, which is not enough for Beichen to stuff his teeth.
When the soldiers of the Beichen Army put the ladder on the city wall, they quickly climbed towards the city wall. Although the big guy wondered why the defenders in the city didn't fight back, wouldn't it be good not to fight back!
Thousands of soldiers quickly climbed the city wall, and when they saw it, they were also stunned. On the old long city wall, there were only dozens of defenders in front of him, and these dozens of defenders were still honestly staying together, and all the weapons were still in front.
What's going on?
The soldiers of the Beichen Army who climbed the city wall looked at the defenders squatting on the ground suspiciously, and quickly occupied the vital parts of the city wall. Then a group of soldiers walked up to the defenders. Because of the language barrier between the two armies, and there were no servant soldiers in the water division, the Beichen army silently gathered the weapons on the ground.
Then, the dozens of defenders actually stood up consciously. This startled the Beichen soldiers who were putting away their weapons, and then saw these dozens of people slowly raise their hands and walk towards the city wall in a neat line.
Seeing this move, the officers and men of the Beichen Army also understood what it meant. Then, a sentry officer said to the shed behind him: "Take your men and pull these guys to the prisoner camp." The rest of the people will follow me and plunder the city. ”
Depressed, he took his subordinates and escorted the captives towards the outside of the city.
From the soldiers' reports, Li Ancheng also learned some facts. only to realize that I was wrong before. It's not that these barbarians want to open and fight to the death with themselves, but they don't have time to escape from the city. As a result, they were blocked in the city by the Beichen army that came quickly.
As for the defenders in Ulan City, Li Ancheng really didn't know what kind of language to use to express it. This has just come over, and more than ninety percent of the five thousand defenders have run, and only a few hundred people remain. Especially the middle and high-level generals, they don't know where to hide.
Subsequently, the army entered the city, and the remaining hundreds of defenders surrendered directly. The Beichen army took the barrier to the east of the capital of Buni without any damage, and the army was about to attack the enemy capital!